Kramer Morgenthau

Kramer Morgenthau, A.S.C., is an American cinematographer and a member of both the Morgenthau and the Lehman family.
He's known for Emmy-nominated television projects like HBO's Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and Fahrenheit 451.

Background

Morgenthau was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His father, Henry Morgenthau III, was a producer of documentaries for the flagship PBS station, WGBH-TV, in Boston and his mother, Ruth, was a Polish Jewish refugee from WWII Vienna; was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University; served as an advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter on Africa; and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island. He has one brother, Henry "Ben" Morgenthau and one sister, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel.
His great-great-grandfather was businessman Mayer Lehman. His grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Jr., the U.S. Treasury secretary during the Roosevelt administration. His great-grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I; his uncle is Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney for 35 years.

Career

His early career began in New York as a documentary filmmaker, which led him to shoot Allan Miller's Academy Award-nominated film, Small Wonders, as well as Sundance Festival feature film, Joe & Joe, which began his years as a festival fixture, shooting seven more features and documentaries that played there.
Morgenthau is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the International Cinematographers Guild.

Personal life

In 2011, he married Tracy Fleischman in a Jewish ceremony at the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in Los Angeles.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and twin children.

Filmography

Film

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director
1999	The Caseys	Michael Steinberg
2002	Untitled Paul Simms pilot	Timothy Van Patten
2004	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Lloyd Kramer
2011	Too Big to Fail	Curtis Hanson
2018	Fahrenheit 451	Ramin Bahrani
2019	American Son	Kenny Leon

Documentary works

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1995	Synthetic Pleasures	Iara Lee	With Marcus Hahn Toshifumi Furusawa
1995	Small Wonders	Allan Miller
1995	Varga Girl	Wolfgang Hastert
1999	Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters	Marc Cadieux
2003	Mayor of the Sunset Strip	George Hickenlooper	With Igor Meglic
2004	Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family	Susan Kaplan	With Sarah Cawley, Samuel M. Henriques and Don Lenzer
2004	A Different Kind of Blue	Murray Lerner